Everyone loves John F. Kennedy. He was smart, witty, and good looking. He was the perfect president of the united states, standing up to those mean old communists and the Iron Curtain. His entire family was in politics ( his brother bobby, his dad Joe, and his grandpa "honey Fitz" Fitzgerald). When he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, the entire nation wept. 30 years latter, they pondered.
I am currently reading the dark side of Camelot, by Seymour Hersh. The book is a biography that shows off the worst sides of JFK. Trust me, they're tons of them. I personally have always thought JFK was the greatest president who lived. He was flawless. But he's actually not. Don't get me wrong, JFK was a great president, who was a war hero, and a great man. He just had many "quirks" that are mostly responsible of his father. Joe Kennedy's life lesson to his son, was to get rich, go into politics, get married, stay married, have as many children as possible, and have as much sex as possible. In the book, Joe, walks right into a family lunch with a random women, and proceeds to walk by his wife, and have intercourse with the woman. JFK respected his father greatly, and if Joe did it, then he should to. JFK would go on to have many affairs with women before and after he married Jackie Kennedy.
When Al Gore lost to George Bush in the 2000 presidential election, everyone of the Democrats was appalled. They had been cheated. In the election of 1960, JFK stole the votes of Chicago from Richard Nixon, because his father was in with the mob, and they forced people at gunpoint to vote Kennedy, or voted themselves as thousands of people who had actually died in World War Two. Chicago was the state that won Kennedy the election.
Though he had his flaws, so did many presidents. JFK was a very nice, polite man his main problem was just that...
He never really wore any pants.
Theo, I remember you talking to me about this during Math class, but I like how you went deeper here than in class. It really got me to see what you were really trying to say.
ReplyDeletePS. I liked your last sentence it made me laugh.
why believe everything you read? sure all presidents have a dark side to them but it seems like it would be kind of hard to cover up that much information about john f kennedy. i don't know though, it could just be i respect him and i don't want my views to be changed, or the author had an agenda either one works.
ReplyDeletei think that JFK was a fine president, but everyone has there dark side. And I think that book is a little biased Theo, I looked at the pictures and there wasn't one good picture of Kennedy in there. I think to understand him you need a full unbiased biography.
ReplyDeleteTheo, is it that the book only shows the dark side, or is it balanced? Why do you think it's written the way it is? Also, I appreciate your Al Gore comparison - it shows that you are very aware of the political climate of our country. . .
ReplyDeleteIt is MOSTLY about the dark side, because most of kennedy's finer moments are known to the public. The book is not anti kennedy at all, it just shows that he was not perfect, in fact he was very far from it.
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